The Senate Executive Committee heard testimony on a constitutional amendment to enshrine hunting, fishing, and trapping rights (SB 212) — which drew both broad support and pointed language concerns from members — and continued a years-long push to move Delaware's September state primary to April (HB 65), a bill that passed the House 38-0 but faced committee questions about lame duck periods and presidential primary alignment.
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Senator Townsend argued he was 'very skeptical of the word traditional just because it might mean to you the way we do it today' and said he did not believe there was case law fixing its definition, raising the hypothetical of a group claiming a 150-year-old leg hold trap was 'traditional.' Senator Wilson responded by asking directly whether removing the word 'traditional' was 'the hang up of this whole bill,' while Senator Lawson argued the phrase 'in any form that is allowed by Denreck' would resolve the concern and that holding up a constitutional amendment over the word 'traditional' was unwarranted.
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“If we. And you might be able to answer this, too, if we say traditional methods, are we allowing us to go backwards in maybe doing inhumane trapping? Where. So that's where I guess. And this is just a regulatory question and that. That may address the. The concerns that we get regarding. Yeah, Senator, we're. We're not going backwards by any stretch of the imagination. They've made modifications in trapping much better. The traps are more humane than they ever were today. We had no intention to go in the opposite direction. It wouldn't make any sense at all, to be perfectly honest with you. But I. I'll be up front with you right here. I've been working for the”
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